The Management Board of Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. (the "Company") hereby informs that the Annual General Meeting based on the resolutions adopted on April 2, 2015 decided that the Supervisory Board of the new term will consist of six members and appointed Zygmunt Solorz-Żak, Robert Gwiazdowski, Józef Birka, Aleksander Myszka, Heronim Ruta and Leszek Reksa to the Supervisory Board for the following three-year term.
The curriculum vitae of the members of the Supervisory Board appointed on April 2, 2015 are as follows:
Zygmunt Solorz-Żak is active in various business sectors of Poland's economy. At the end of the 1980s, he founded Przedsiębiorstwo Zagraniczne SOLPOL, a foreign trade enterprise. At the beginning of the 1990s, Mr. Solorz-Żak entered the media sector by investing in Kurier Polski Sp. z o.o., a daily newspaper. In 1993, he launched Polsat, the first private satellite television in Poland, which received a broadcasting license later that year and transformed into a nationwide television channel. Within the first few years of its operations, Telewizja Polsat became one of the leaders of the TV broadcasting market in Poland.
Currently, Mr. Solorz-Żak focuses his business activities on the media and telecommunication sectors, where he operates chiefly through such companies as Cyfrowy Polsat (being also its founder), Telewizja Polsat, Polkomtel and companies of Midas Group. Mr. Solorz-Żak has many years' experience in serving on the governing bodies of commercial-law companies, which includes positions on the Supervisory Boards of such companies as Telewizja Polsat Sp. z o.o., Polkomtel Sp. z o.o., Midas S.A., Plus Bank S.A. (formerly: Invest-Bank S.A.) and Zespół Elektrowni Pątnów-Adamów-Konin S.A.
Mr. Zygmunt Solorz-Żak does not run a business competitive to Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. and is not entered into the Registry of Insolvent Debtors held by the Registry Court.
Robert Gwiazdowski holds a post-doctoral degree of Habilitated Doctor (doctor habilitatus) in law and is a professor at Łazarski University. Mr. Gwiazdowski is an active attorney-at-law and tax advisor and has served as President of Adam Smith Centre since 2004. In 2006-2007, he served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Polish Social Insurance Institution (Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych). At present, Mr. Gwiazdowski serves as Member of the Supervisory Boards of the following listed companies: DGA S.A., SARE S.A., Dom Maklerski IDM S.A., and MNI S.A., which operates on the telephony and TV markets.
Mr. Robert Gwiazdowski does not run a business competitive to Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. and is not entered into the Registry of Insolvent Debtors held by the Registry Court. Mr. Robert Gwiazdowski fulfills the independence criteria set forth in Code of Best Practices of WSE Listed companies in Chapter III point 6.
Józef Birka is an advocate and graduate of the Faculty of Law of Wroclaw University. He has been associated with Telewizja Polsat S.A. since its inception, he was in charge of the function of the President of the Management Board of Telewizja Polsat during first licensing procedure granting terrestrial license to broadcast first independent countrywide TV programme in Poland. Since the establishing, he is a Member of the Board of the POLSAT Foundation, one of the largest non-governmental organizations operating in Poland.
Mr. Józef Birka has large experience of working in statutory bodies of legal companies. He is a Member of the Supervisory Board Telewizja Polsat Sp. z o.o., Polkomtel Sp. z o.o. and Elektrim S.A. Between 2004 and 2006 he was also in the Supervisory Board Member of Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa Sp. z o.o. He acts actively in the Association of Private Media Employers, incorporated into Polish Confederation of Private Employers "Lewiatan". He was honored by the Polish Bar Council with a medal “Commendable Service to the Advocates Bar”.
Mr. Józef Birka does not run a business competitive to Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. and is not entered into the Registry of Insolvent Debtors held by the Registry Court.
Aleksander Myszka is a solicitor and graduate of the Faculty of Law of Wroclaw University. He commenced his career as a solicitor in a Law Firm in Oleśnica, and then he worked for Law Office No. 4 in Wrocław where he also held a position of a Director for two terms of office. In particular, he focused in his practice on civil law and since the mid-eighties he has specialized in commercial law and developed legal services for business entities. His career has been connected with Telewizja Polsat Sp. z o.o. since its establishing, as Mr. Myszka is one of its co-founders. For 12 years – in the period from 1995 to 2007 – he held the position of the President of the Management Board of Telewizja Polsat.
Since April 30, 2007 Mr. Aleksander Myszka has been a Member of the Supervisory Board of Telewizja Polsat Sp. z o.o. and since November 9, 2011 - a Member of the Supervisory Board of Polkomtel Sp. z o.o. He is also a co-founder and a member of Stowarzyszenie Kreatywna Polska, a society gathering the community of artists and creative industries whose main goals are the protection of copyrights and intellectual property. In 2015 Mr. Myszka was elected for a 3-year term of office to the Council of the Polish Film Institute.
Mr. Aleksander Myszka does not run a business competitive to Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. and is not entered into the Registry of Insolvent Debtors held by the Registry Court.
Heronim Ruta graduated from the Electrical Faculty of the Warsaw University of Technology.
From 1978 to 1979, he was a specialist supervising the development of an experimental car for ultrasonic detection of cracks in rail tracks at the National Railway Technology Research Centre (Centralny Ośrodek Badań Techniki Kolejnictwa). In 1980-1987, he was head of Wytwórczo-Usługowa Spółdzielnia Pracy (a production and services cooperative). In 1987, he founded Herom Sp. z o.o., where he was President until 1992. In 1992-1994, he was President of Ster Sp. z o.o. In 2002-2005, he was Member of the Management Board of Polaris Finance B.V., and from 2002 to 2004 – Member of the Supervisory Board of Uzdaroji Akcine Bendrove ‘Baltijos Televizja’. Mr. Ruta serves on the Supervisory Boards of various companies, including Plus Bank S.A., PAI Media S.A. w likwidacji (in liquidation), Dolnośląskie Centrum Aktywności Gospodarczej S.A. (formerly: Gurex S.A.), Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. and Telewizja Polsat Sp. z o.o. From November 2011 to February 2014, he was also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Polkomtel Sp. z o.o., where he now serves as Deputy Chairman.
Mr. Heronim Ruta does not run a business competitive to Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. and is not entered into the Registry of Insolvent Debtors held by the Registry Court.
Leszek Reksa graduated from the Foreign Trade Faculty of the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (currently: Warsaw School of Economics). He has also completed numerous specialist seminars and courses in management and finance, including a seminar on corporate management at the Faculty of Finance at DePaul University in Chicago.
He has vast experience in managerial positions at various companies, including 20 years in the banking sector (Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski S.A.). Mr. Reksa also has many years' experience in serving on the governing bodies of commercial-law companies, which includes the positions of President of the Management Board of PHU BIMOT S.A., Member of the Supervisory Board of Bankowy Fundusz Leasingowy S.A., and Member of the Supervisory Board of Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn S.A.
Mr. Leszek Reksa does not run a business competitive to Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. and is not entered into the Registry of Insolvent Debtors held by the Registry Court. Mr. Leszek Reksa fulfills the independence criteria set forth in Code of Best Practices of WSE Listed companies in Chapter III point 6.
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